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idiocy

/id-ee-uh-see/US // ˈɪd i ə si //UK // (ˈɪdɪəsɪ) //

白痴,白癡,白痴病,白话

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural id·i·o·cies.

    • : utterly senseless or foolish behavior; a stupid or foolish act, statement, etc.: All this talk of zombies coming to attack us is pure idiocy.
    • : Psychology. the state of being an idiot.

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Examples

  • Radius is the robot that understands his station and chafes at the idiocy of his makers, having acted out his frustrations by smashing statues.

  • The ambulance took more than half an hour to arrive, which was a criminal idiocy.

  • They were then amplified by social media algorithms “that were smart enough to spot a viral trend but dumb enough not to notice the idiocy of its content,” according to Wired, a technology magazine.

  • The present will dish up plenty of its own idiocy to hold our attention.

  • And a successful two-term Governor of a state where the balloting incompetence and idiocy is absolutely vital to the GOP.

  • “I think it comes from idiocy and cowardice,” said Whedon of the female superhero problem.

  • On The View, while she leads the show, she sat apart from the more hysterical caterwauling and general idiocy around her.

  • The full idiocy of conspiricism at its dreariest has thus been summoned to relativize the crime and, in so doing, deny it.

  • To this day Jean Kostka does not seem conscious of any element of idiocy in the variation of the old-fashioned name.

  • Inexhaustibly kind to undeserved misfortune, a little impatient of mere incompetence, implacable to continuous idiocy.

  • The sight he was looking on would have sent three men out of five into gibbering idiocy.

  • Perhaps not until the child is six months old can the observer distinguish between blindness and idiocy.

  • Physical inhibition in the growth of the brain involves, on the mental side, feeble-mindedness and idiocy.